Soulful Shabbaton - Finding Our Way into Connection

Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4

Featuring Teacher in Residence, Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife.

SHABBAT SERVICES

Friday, May 3

6:00 PM: Kabbalat Shabbat

In person - Fishbein Chapel

Leader: Cantor Mayer

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6:00 PM: Soulful Shabbaton Kabbalat Shabbat

In person - Bohnen Vestry

7:29 PM: Candle Lighting

Saturday, May 4

8:00 AM: Early Service - Parashat Aharei Mot

In person - Fishbein Chapel

Leaders: Murray Gereboff, Niecie Weiner

Torah Readers: Niecie Weiner, Murray Gereboff

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9:30 AM: Sanctuary Service - Boomers & Beyond and Shabbat B'yahad

In person - Main Sanctuary

Service Leaders: Rabbi Fel and Cantor Mayer

P'sukei: Judy Greenblatt

10:15 AM - Torah Service

Leaders: Rabbi Fel, Toby Liebowitz, and students in the Religious School's 6th and 7th grades

Torah Readers: Karen Drucker-Stern, Howard Epstein, David Lubiner, Ron Shufrin, Bill Dilworth

Haftarah: Josh Gutman

11:15 AM - Teaching by Sandi Atlas-Gordon and David Gordon

11:30 AM - Musaf

Leader: Pam Kaitin-Miller

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9:30AM: Soulful Shabbaton

In person - Bohnen Vestry

11:15 AM: Tot Shabbat

In person - Sisterhood Lounge

12:00 PM: Kiddush Lunch

In person - Alperin Meeting House Foyer

12:45 PM: Learning Session with Keshira haLev Fife

In person - Bohnen Vestry

1:10 PM: Shabbat Minhah

In person - Fishbein Chapel

Torah Reader: Larry Katz

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8:35 PM - Shabbat Ends

8:45 PM - Zoom Havdalah

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Many thanks to the Boomers and Beyond community for sponsoring Kiddush this week. Special thanks go to Esta & Fred Barcohana, Sandi Atlas-Gordon & David Gordon, Eva & Joshua Gutman, and Sally & Fred Rotenberg.

If you'd like to contribute to Shabbat Kiddush lunch, CLICK HERE or contact Paul Stouber pstouber@teprov.org or call

(401) 331-1616. THANK YOU!!!

Do you have a lifecycle event you want to announce to the congregation? Click here to let us know!

For instructions on touchless zooming on Shabbat Click HERE

Please let us know if you or someone you know is sick. To email the clergy Click here or call the Temple office: (401) 331-1616

Regular Business Office Hours:

Monday 4/29:

* CLOSED

Tuesday - Thursday:

* 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Friday:

* 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

REMINDER: Only the Main Sanctuary entrance will be open on Shabbat and Yom Tov mornings. You may still enter through our Taft Avenue door with your Temple access card. Call the Temple office for more information: 401-331-1616

A Note on Security

In response to the growing need for enhanced security, we have implemented a comprehensive security plan that includes restricted entry points, the installation of state-of-the-art surveillance cameras, and regular private security details on Shabbat and Yom Tov. For the coming weeks, we have engaged members of the Providence Police Department to provide security details and area patrols on Shabbat, for special events, and when our religious school is in session. 

These efforts reflect Temple Emanu-El's unwavering commitment to providing a secure and welcoming environment for all who worship within its walls, ensuring that faith and community can thrive without fear.

THANK YOU, VOLUNTEERS!

Office Help: Amy Berrol, Ellen Shaw

KITCHEN RE-OPENING!

We are delighted to announce that on April 24th, Temple Emanu-El received its new retail food business license for non-profit food service. Congratulations to Shosh Jacob and Angelo Richter for achieving their Food Safety Manager certifications! Thank you to the entire Maintenance Dept. for their hard work renovating the kitchen and making us shine! And thank you to you, our congregation, for your patience as we navigated this unexpected but necessary re-licensing process.

TEMPLE EMANU-EL HAPPENINGS

Shabbat Chai is Back!

Date: Friday, May 10 at 6:00 PM

Save the Date! Pride Weekend

Dates: Friday, May 31 through Sunday, June 2, 2024

Join Temple Emanu-El and TEQ for a weekend full of meaning and fun! Pride Shabbat Weekend this year will include:

• Shabbat Dinner following Shabbat B'ma'agal services
• Shabbat Morning Services with a panel discussion during kiddush
• Sunday evening Comedian, Michele Balan, to close out the weekend

Joey Weisenberg's Rising Song Workshop

Hosted by Temple Emanu-El, Temple Beth-El and Congregation Beth Sholom

Location: Temple Emanu-El in Providence, RI

Date: Tuesday, June 4

Time: Minyan at 7:00 followed by workshop at 7:30pm 

Joey Weisenberg, renowned musician and founder of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, will visit Providence to lead an inspiring workshop of Jewish communal singing and to connect in person with members of his online Master Classes in Jewish Song! 

Join the Master Class community today ($18/month, cancelable anytime) to attend the workshop and to open up the magic of Jewish music through over 1,000 in-depth video lessons!

Baking For A Cause

Cookies, brownies or bars are needed that will be added as dessert to over 200 bagged lunches given out weekly by either McAuley House or Help the Homeless, RI.  

Please make a double batch of your favorite cookie/brownie or bar. Put a generous portion (2-3 cookies depending on the size) into a snack or sandwich sized bag and deliver them to either Paula Goldberg 47 Paine Ave. Cranston, RI or Barbara Dwares 46 Balsam Court Cranston RI. Call Paula 941-2042 or Barbara 474-8276 with any questions.

COMMUNITY NEWS

The Jewish Alliance of Greater RI

Israel Emergency Fund

The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island stands with Israel and has opened this emergency fund to provide immediate financial assistance and relief to victims of terror and war.

IMPORTANT:

Please note - the location of this event has been moved here

to Temple Emanu-El

Only the Main Sanctuary doors will be open.

Access cards will NOT work for this event.

Programming for arts and culture at the Jewish Alliance will resume after Pesach with the screening of a multiple-award-winning film, SHTTL, a beautiful recreation of a European shtetl; and a mindful and sculptural challah bake with our artist-in-residence, Zo Baker. In the meantime, for those who were planning on entering artwork into our upcoming community art exhibit or being a vendor at the upcoming Jewish Culture Fest, the deadlines are this Monday! An extension can be made but it must be requested ASAP.

SHTTL film screening

Thursday, May 9, 6:30pm at Dwares JCC. $8 members, $10 non-members.

In this multiple award-winning film, a filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life. He is expected to marry the Rabbi’s daughter, which disrupts the balance of the whole town. In one unflinching shot, this film presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears. Directed by Ady Walter, Ukraine, 2023. Yiddish with subtitles, 109 Minutes. [ watch the trailer ]

https://www.jewishallianceri.org/events/shttl-film-screening

Challah Bake! Sculpture and Symbolism Through Baking

Thursday, May 16th, 6-8pm at Dwares JCC. $15 members, $20 non-members.

Join artist-in-residence Zo Baker for a challah bake unlike any other. In this workshop participants are invited to think about challah through the lenses of mindfulness and sustainability. We’ll connect each ingredient to Jewish values and symbolism and come away with new relationships to how we eat and create with intentionality and care. Participants are invited to use the dough like clay to form shapes and structures that tell stories and to consider the architecture of the divine and the everyday. Participants will leave with dough to bring home, build, and bake, and their own hand-made sculptural mini challahs. All ages welcome!

https://www.jewishallianceri.org/events/challah-bake-sculpture

Jewish Culture Fest!

Sunday, June 2nd, 11am-6:30pm at Dwares JCC. Free to all.

Join us at the Dwares JCC as we put the best of Jewish culture on display for all of Rhode Island! The Jewish Culture Fest will feature live musical performances on outdoor stages, dance performances, stand-up comedy, a family-friendly Kid Zone, community art exhibit, storytellers, food, beer garden, whiskey tasting, open-air artisan market and more!

https://www.jewishallianceri.org/connect/things-to-do/jewish-culture-fest

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